Some video showing the Shop Channel equivalent for 3DS.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/24373
Part of the presentation at today's Nintendo Operational Briefing showed a video example of the Shop Channel for Nintendo 3DS.
Mario, Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario, and utilities such as the Mario Clock are shown in the clean new interface. The video also shows a Super Mario Land video loaded and played from the service.
See below for a portion of the Briefing, including the Shop Channel demonstration.
Nintendo has learned from previous mistakes and is really hitting the 3DS out of the park. What's next NO friend codes and built in voice chat in all online games?
Also, will the 3DS store be as slow and cumbersome as that of the DSishop?Was the DSi's worse than the Wii's? Please tell me that that's not possible.
Exactly how was the DSi/Wii Shop channel bad? It's not perfect (Live Arcade has a better shop, obviously), but it gets the job done.Also, will the 3DS store be as slow and cumbersome as that of the DSishop?Was the DSi's worse than the Wii's? Please tell me that that's not possible.
To be fair, Virtual Console purchases include a customized emulator with each ROM, so you are downloading much more data from the Wii Shop Channel. It's still not that much, though.Hopefully they got rid of that GB Limit developers have to use.
From what I can tell in the video, the user isn't playing Super Mario Land, but rather watching a video from the store itself. That's a great feature to have.
I updated the video with a higher-quality version with English dubbing of the briefing presentation.
See below for a low-res copy of the video; note that there is no sound.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/101029/07.html (http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/101029/07.html)QuoteWhen we activate the shop for Nintendo 3DS, you will see the arrays of shelves by the themes. How to shift from one icon to another has become smoother, as you can see.
There are multiple software titles on the shelves sorted by their themes.
When you select a software title, you will see such options as checking the software details, watching a trailer, downloading a demo, and reading the users’ comments.
When you select the game’s details, just like you do with Nintendo Channels on Wii, you will see an explanation of the game and how long the existing players have been playing with the software and with what frequency. Directly from here, you can also visit the official website for that software.
When you select the movie option, you will see introductions of the content, such as trailers, before purchasing the software.
Other than the shelves for the software, there are places where you can see a list of the latest software or a list of the best-selling titles. You can search for your preferred software, and you can express your support for some software if you’d like to recommend it to other people.
With Nintendo 3DS, in addition to expanding the packaged software sales, we are aiming to pursue the new possibilities of digital content download sales.
edit: Talkback has been updated with a video that has this info dubbed over the silence of the previous video.
Hmmm, overall this looks good, but there's still no sign of playable demos. I guess I shouldn't be surprised--Nintendo seems philosophically opposed to them for their own games and is therefore uninterested in implementing such an option for third parties.Then what exactly is the DS demo thing on the Nintendo Channel for? Developers had a voice with the 3DS development, so demos HAD to be mentioned more then once.
To be fair, Virtual Console purchases include a customized emulator with each ROM, so you are downloading much more data from the Wii Shop Channel. It's still not that much, thoughI wasn't aware of that. That makes it slightly more excusable.
We should all also be aware that the DSi/Wii do not have the same horsepower the 3DS will have. Yet in Wii's case, I don't why an update for the Wii Shop Channel to have the same layout of the Nintendo Channel isn't possible.To be fair, Virtual Console purchases include a customized emulator with each ROM, so you are downloading much more data from the Wii Shop Channel. It's still not that much, thoughI wasn't aware of that. That makes it slightly more excusable.
(Taxing my purchases and being really fucking hard to read in 480p? **** you Sony.)
